Is Your Pastor The Perfect Model?

Exodus 39:1-43  Romans 11:29

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When Moses went up to the mountain, God spoke to him and gave him the Ten Commandments. Moses was gone so long to the point that the people began to say, "What has become of our leader? Lets make us a god that will lead us."

Aaron told the people to bring their gold to him. He began to melt it down and designed a golden calf. What could have happen to this leader? Wasn't he the brother who assisted Moses in telling Pharaoh, "let my people go?"

Moses comes off the mountain and hears the sound of a wild party. What had Aaron done, what had the people been doing while Moses was receiving the written tablets from the finger of God? We all see that Aaron's leadership wasn't very strong. While Moses is on the mountain, he gave in to the people's whims and wishes.

Moses became very angry when he saw what the people had done. He ask Aaron, What have you done, why have you built this golden calf? His lame response was, "I tossed the people's gold in the fire and that's what came out."

God immediately brought correction to the people and Moses said, "Whosoever is on the Lord's side, come over to me, the Levites were the first to follow after Moses. That day over 3000  lives died. When it was all said and done, God was restoring his leadership team. God was correcting the people before moving forward.

It's in Exodus 39, that God is describing the vest that is being made for Aaron. God instructed Moses to make an Ephod using gold and blue, purple and scarlet fabrics and finely twisted linen. The point here is even when a leader blows it, God hasn't changed his mind about his coat and call for his assignment.

Many leaders through the bible have made great blunders in their leading. God never determines a call according to their perfect marks. If perfection were the model, then there would be no leaders in the Kingdom of God. What about Moses anger and murdering a man? What about Jacob, David, Samson, Solomon, Elijah, Jonah, Peter and all the disciples that fled at Christ crucifixion? No one is perfect, no not one, just forgiven.

Were all made out of the same stuff. Pray for your pastor and show mercy the next time they don't fit the perfect model. God isn't through with them because of a blunder. He continues to work on each of us, and our development. Were all instruments in the master's hand to do His work and the will of the Father. "For God's gifts and his call is irrevocable." (Romans 11:29)

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Can God Find Me Now?

Mark 6:45-51
When was the last time you found yourself in a dark difficult despair? Have you questioned if God really knew about your dilemma? Does He really know where I am in my pain and sorrow? Does God even care or realize how tough my ordeal has become? Is He really going to come to my rescue?

There never has been a time yet that God wasn't aware of your sorrow, your hurt and pain. The disciples had gotten into the boat and were heading to Bethsaida as Jesus had instructed. The Lord never promised us that when we take His instructions that we would live a trouble-free life.

The disciples were doing exactly what the Lord had told them yet they found themselves struggling to get to their destination. Jesus had climbed up the mountain to pray while sending them off to the next village for ministry.

It's interesting to me that while Jesus is being refreshed and is receiving fresh instructions for his next assignment; the Father makes his Son aware that his disciples are struggling in the dark with the wind on the lake.

Jesus knows how to find you in the dark. There is nothing that can hinder him from getting to you in your dark situation. Notice there was no Boston Whaler vessel with a 250 HP Evinrude motor, there was no Sea Doo jet ski, but Jesus still has the means to come to them at 4 AM walking on the water. He may never be early, but will never be late.

As Jesus moonwalks on the water, they were afraid thinking it was a ghost, but quickly Jesus assures them, "It is I, be not afraid." As they heard those words, their doubts settled down, He climbed into the boat and the winds died down. 

He is assuring them again that there will never be a place or a time that you will be out of my mind. There will never be a place that I don't know right where you are. You will never be in a dilemma that I can't solve, you will never be a situation that I'm to busy too handle for you.

Chill out friend, If He can speak the heavens and the earth into existence and create billions of stars into the heavens and name them all by name. If He can make Adam from the dust of the earth and create Eve from his rib, come on, just how difficult is it for him to find you in your dark dilemma? 

Smile, He knows right where you are and knows how to find you and fix your nightmare of life. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8) If He knows when you lose one hair out of your head. (Luke 12:7) He won't nod off or sleep through your next ordeal. 

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Explore and Expand?

It's always a challenge to explore and to expand into places that you have never been before. In the days of Columbus, the idea that the world was flat was a myth, if you get out there too far you might fall off the edge of the world? That didn't stop Columbus from exploring unto the unknown. He found out is was worth the exploring and expanding into areas of the world he had never been or seen. Some people have allowed fear and intimidation to hinder them from the unknown. Abram was told by God, "Leave your country, your family, and your father's home for a land that I will show you."(1) God tells him, "I'll make you a great nation and bless you."(2) Would he explore, would he expand where he had never been before? Heading off to college, fixing to get married, fixing to have your first child, fixing to buy your first home? One of man's greatest enemies is fear. I felt the Lord speak to my heart a few days ago, " Danny this will be a year for you to explore and to expand." What did the Lord mean? What was he talking about? I have always believed that if we would set aside time for God to speak creative words and thoughts into our hearts, you and I could go places we have never been before. The only reason I'm in full-time ministry, pastoring a church in Jacksonville Fl, is because one spoken word from God. Why all the favor and blessings in life? I can't take the credit for where I am, what I'm doing, and the results that have come my way. All I can say is, "the exploration into the unknown has forever changed my life." Abram is about to enter into a new world, all based on his hearing God's direction and blessings over his life. To many of us are to consumed with our own plans and agenda. Friend, carve out time for God to speak to you. It's the New Year, why don't you carve out some scheduled time to wait and listen to what He has to say to you. He has much to say about your future, your family, your ministry, your business, and the vision that He has mapped out for your life? He did for Abram; He is no respecter of persons. Will this be your year to explore and to expand your life?

Divine Interruptions

Luke 7:12-15  A funeral procession was coming out as he approached the village gate. The young man who had died was a widow’s only son, and a large crowd from the village was with her.13 When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion. “Don’t cry!” he said.14 Then he walked over to the coffin and touched it, and the bearers stopped. “Young man,” he said, “I tell you, get up.”

15 Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk! And Jesus gave him back to his mother.

A few years ago I was preaching to a full house on a Sunday Morning when one of our members fell over into her husbands lap and quit breathing. Talking about interruptions, I said: "What could God be up to this morning?"

A widow was coming through the gate of the village when she crossed paths with Jesus. She was in the funeral procession, on their way to the burial site, but Jesus showed up with compassion.

"Don't cry!" he said. Then he walked over to the coffin and touched it, and the bearers stopped. "Young man" he said, "I tell you, get up"

Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk! Wow, can you imagine the mom's surprise, the crowd was startled by such a miraculous action.

One interruption from the master gave a dead son back to her mom. That's who our Lord is; He is the person who brings divine interruptions to change our broken lives. Nearly all of the miracles of Christ were divine interruptions.

Some of you today need God to interrupt your busy life, your brokenness, your dilemma, your impossibility, your broken marriage, your broken body, your broken ministry, your broken dream.

What could I do after 20 minutes of the church calling on God for a miracle to see this woman live again? Our medical people had tried to revive her, but still no sign of life. As the ambulance and medical team were on the way, one of our medical personal shook their head; "she's gone."

But God had another plan, I felt God lead me to have the people stand and sing, "O victory in Jesus" it wasn't till we sang the second chorus, I heard a scream, "Pat is alive;" she had come back to life.

God could haven chosen anywhere else to have interrupted our lives, but the Lord chose a Sunday morning worship service to reveal himself and to make Himself known. Pat still faithfully attends our church to this day.

Who said there was anything to hard for God? Who said He couldn't open blinded eyes, cause the lame to walk, even raise the dead to life.

Never Never give up on what God has in mind for your destiny. He is still the same yesterday today and forever. God has a plan even when we don't see it. This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it. Where will He interrupt your life today?

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Life Is In The Blood

Exodus 12:1-51
Pharaoh would now let the people of God go. He had hardened his heart till the last plague would come to his own household. There would be a cry that night heard all over Egypt because of a man who had hardened his heart and refuse to listen to God. Death would come and knock at each door in Egypt. There the first-born would die. 

The firstborn of Egypt would be taken. The grip of death would come to each home, upon ever firstborn animal. God instructs Moses a plan in order to escape the death angle that would come. "You are to instruct each household to take a lamb for their home before the death angle passes over the land." 

"You are to prepare that lamb and roast it the night of the Passover, then take the blood and place it over the door post of your home. When the death angles moves by, "when I see the blood I will pass over you."

To this day the Israelites keep this day as a great moment of remembrance, a great day of deliverance. 

The big question for each of us is have we too accepted the significance of this day? 2000 years ago Christ Jesus came as the perfect Lamb of God and sacrificed his own blood on the cross for our sins. 

Symbolically we too need to have the blood applied to the doorpost of our own hearts. One day the death angle is going to pass over each of us. The only thing that will make us ready for heaven is, when God sees the blood, He will pass over us. There is life in the blood. No one lived that night without the blood from the lamb being placed over the door. These bodies will die, but there is a second life that will live on and on.

When you are judged and stand before God, the only thing that will get you to heaven is not your position in the church, not the money you give to help the poor, the broken, not the funds you have given to build churches overseas. 

The only reason that you will make heaven your home is you have ask Christ Jesus to forgive you of your sins. It's His blood that removes our sins from us as far as the east is from the west, never to be remembered again.

Have you placed the blood over the doorpost of your heart? If not accept Christ as your Lord and allow His blood to cleanse and forgive you of your sins. Rejoice today that there is Life in the Blood.

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Trust Your Flesh? (2)

There is mornings that if I listen to my flesh I wouldn't do my walk-run. Some mornings I wouldn't eat my oatmeal, I would rather eat pancakes, bacon and eggs. Many mornings if I listen to my flesh "I would," on and on I could go. All of us know the flesh screams out for what it wants.

If you live after the flesh you will die, but if you through the spirit put to death the deeds of the body you will live. (Romans 8:13) Jesus was about to go to the cross to pay ultimate sacrifice for you and me. Surely the flesh was screaming, there has got to be another way. Jesus knew that in order to overcome the cross, he must stop at the garden of Gethsemane to spend time with his Father.

How many things do we miss in our journey because we allow the voices of the flesh to talk us out of our mission? Jesus ask his disciples to pray with him in the greatest trial of his life, yet their flesh fell asleep. Jesus came over in their nodding off time and time again to wake them up.

Is there something that God is saying to you over and over again? Have you allowed the flesh to drown out the sound of the spirit of God? If you listen to the flesh, you will miss the will of God. If you listen to the flesh, you may leave your spouse, you may walk away from ministry, you may refuse to get up and read your bible, spend time in prayer, you may end up going to the beach or the mall instead of the house of the Lord.

There is none righteous, no not one. Jesus pressed through the flesh in the garden of Gethsemane, Adam and Eve listen to the flesh in the garden of Eden and gave way to the flesh. They lost everything because the flesh ruled out.

How many people today are in prison, have left their marriage, have taken their life, have given up on their dream because the flesh overwhelmed their heart. Jesus gives us the greatest example of spending time in prayer in order to succeed with your mission in life.

I wouldn't be at Oceanway Assembly of God today if I had listen to my flesh. Times of discouragement, times of doubt, times overwhelmed with pain. There is only one who can renew us, who can refuel us, who can give us the oil that we need to go the distance.

Don't undervalue the time to go spend with the Lord. They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

Jesus fulfilled his mandate on the cross, because he refused to listen to the flesh. He overcame the flesh because He spent time with his father. O by the way, nobody else can run my 2 miles for me; no one else can make me push back from the grand slam for breakfast.

Jesus stands at the right hand of the Father making intercession for you and I in order to overcome, to win, to be victorious over the flesh. Jesus is waiting for our honest hearts to be refreshed and touched again and again. Let him renew you now to triumph over every doubt, every defeat, and every discouragement. I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)

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Trust Your Flesh? (1)

I wish I could tell you that because I have served the Lord for many years that now I can trust my flesh. "NOT" Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed less he fall. ( 1 Cor 12:10) Just before Jesus was to go on trial and be crucified, Jesus ask his disciples to pray with him in the garden of Gethsemane.

Jesus went to his disciples 3 times to wake them up. They continued to nod off to sleep. I'm sure they had a long day with the Lord. Jesus had just shared with them his last supper and now he is moments away before His great test on the cross.

Do you trust your flesh, do you trust your emotions, do you give in to pressure, do you think that the flesh will win out? Paul said;  "I will glory in the cross."(Galatians 6:14) In other words I will put my confidence in the one who won victory over my doubts, over my temptations at the cross. 

There hath no temptation taken you such is common to man. Were all tempted, were all going to get weak. Were all going to put our foot in our mouth, tempted to gossip, tempted to be prideful, tempted to be jealous, tempted to lust, tempted to be angry. So the question is not will I get weak but what am I going to do to overcome?

Refuse to give in to your fleshly motions. One thought leads to your emotions, then to a decision, then to your actions, then to your character. Wake up, don't fall asleep, you can't do this thing without the help of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus victory on the cross came about because of a habit to always get away and spend time with the Father. Have you worked that in your schedule? Have you created habits that are bringing a greater hunger to know Him and His will for your life? 

Time with Him will create dreams and desires of the spirit in your life. You will either feed the flesh or the spirit. You will either get stuck at the bitter waters of Marah or press on to Elim. Just 7 miles past Marah was Elim where they found 70 palm trees and 12 new wells. 

Jesus could have gotten hung up at the bitter cross but looked to the Father to make the bitter waters sweet. It's on the cross, that ugly tree that makes everything beautiful in our lives. Moses cast the tree in the bitter waters and the waters were made sweet.

Choose today to look to the Lord, its in the cross that will find our healing, our deliverance, our peace, our joy, our courage, our strength, our wisdom, our knowing that He is for us.  

I will glory in the cross, friend that's where you and I will find forgiveness and hope for tomorrow.

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Who Wins In Divorce? (3)

Exodus 15:22-27 
It's easy to throw in the towel and quit when everything in life has gone sour. Moses not only found God's way to make the bitter water's sweet but kept pressing from their own discouragement to delight.

Just 7 miles south of Marah was Elim. Too many people get stuck at Marah. They are still bitter at their spouse, their boss, their kid, their brother or sister. Life will allow all of us to deal and experience with a whirlwind of bitter issues.

When Israel got to Elim, they found 70 palm trees and 12 wells of water. "WOW" The one who will keep pressing through the bitter pills of life will find Elim. What's coming up on your agenda? Unless you let go of the past you will never see God's bright blessings that are in front of you.

Why would you want to get hung up at your Marah? What if Israel had have died in their miserable whining bellyaching season. I know several that have never gotten past their divorce; they've never gotten past their boss that fired them. They can't get past their betrayer that did them wrong. "Forget those things which are behind and reach what is ahead."

Life is too short to live bitter. Get up; press on to your Elim. There's fruit you've never tasted before. God can make all things new. Even if the marriage didn't survive, you can. It's not the end of the world; life isn't over for you, press on to your Elim and taste the new fruit for your life. 

There are wells that you have never drunk from before. When are you going to get off your soapbox and start singing a new song? Are you going to die singing your bitter I-tunes? There's a lot of smiles and singing when you drink from the wells of Elim. Press on, and it will come to pass.

It's time to sing again, it's time to smile again. On a personal note, nearly 5 years after my own Marah, God brought my spouse back home. It was difficult season, but I made up my mind either way I was going to press beyond my own bitter waters. I was pressing to on to my own Elim. Paul say's; "I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me." 

Are you pressing to Elim? Come on God says, "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. (Eccl 7:8) There is a delightful Elim beyond your discouraging Marah.
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Who Wins In Divorce? (2)

Exodus 15:22-29  Matthew 19:3-12

One of the most incredible days in life is to get married to your new bride or groom on your wedding day. Next the honeymoon, O yea what a celebration in getting started with this new person you want to live with the rest of your life.

I don't believe anybody ever plans on anything less than an oasis in your new relationship. No one really expects things down the road to end up in a divorce court. But we all know there have been those over the years who have experience the bitter waters of Marah in their marriage. 

In Exodus, Israel had just won victoriously over the Egyptians, they watched God defeat and drown them in the Red Sea. Miriam is leading a great celebration with her tambourine, but 3 days later they came to the bitter waters of Marah. They began to whine and complain; "were going to die, what are we going to drink now?"

The percentages show better than 50% get divorced from their marriage. Is it possible to overcome this bitter pill in life? Can one get pass this bitter Marah experience? God shows Moses a tree in their bitter situation, he cast it in the waters and the waters are made sweet. The answer to all of our confusion and hurt in broken relationships is found in the tree, the old rugged that Jesus died on 2000 years ago.

There is an answer, there is a healing, and there is a tree that can make the bitter waters sweet.  If will stop long enough to wait and listen to God. Moses did what God instructed him to do and the solution came for their dilemma. The people would have died of thirst, unless God had of showed up with a miracle. 

You don't have to allow your marriage to die if you will look to God for your healing in your relationship. The bitter waters would have never been healed without God's intervention. No one person can fix your quagmire. The nightmare is too dark for you to handle on your own. 

If God made the bitter waters sweet for Israel, He can do it again for you. Get up; press on to your Elim. Watch there is an Oasis just beyond your own Marah. Will answer in part 3, "Is There Delight beyond your discouragement?"
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Who Wins In Divorce? (1)

Matthew 19:3-9  Exodus 15:22-29 
Is there any hope of getting past the bitter waters of divorce? Is there anything past my own Marah? Why would Jesus be so dogmatic that divorce is wrong? Why would he say it was the wrong course of action to take? Better than 50% of marriages have been down this painful road and have experience miserable brokenness and despair, 67% in second marriages, and 74% the third time around.

Jesus isn't trying to put any of us in a box of misery. Some might say; "Hey if it doesn't work out, just get another one." Jesus foresees and realizes the pain, the sorrow, the heartache and grief that come as a result of divorce in marriage. When two people are joined on their wedding day, they become one flesh. God warns that divorce is the ripping apart of the one flesh that will be so painful.

What about the kids, who are they going to live with, who are they going to side with? They want to side with their parents getting back together. All this pain goes far beyond just the husband and wife. I've been through the grief in watching my parents go their separate ways. I have also experience this personal Marah in my own life. I'll share more later. God says there's a better way, nobody wins in going through a divorce. Slow down, you are venerable in your crisis.

Just how much stress will it cause not only to the broken couple, the kids, but all the connected family? Moms, dad's, son's daughter's grandma's grandpa's cousin's, niece's, aunt's uncles the list could go on and on.

Satan is the thief that steals and kills and comes to destroy. Jesus said I have come that you might have life and that you might have it more abundantly. God is great enough to turn anything around. I realize that it takes two to want to reconcile but I encourage couples to never give up, hold out for a miracle, wait and see what God's hands will do. 

It's never too late to see what God has to say about your particular situation. God doesn't put every marriage back together, but there are some that He has put back in place. So who wins in a divorce? Well no offense to attorneys, but divorce attorneys have done quite well financially because of strife and tension and division in our homes.

Don't take the easy way out and run from your disaster at home. Settle down in your crisis and see what God has to say about your dilemma? Israel had a big decision to make at their bitter waters of Marah. Would they live there in bitterness or look for a miracle to make their bitter waters sweet?

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Blinded With A Future Blessing?

Genesis 37-45


It's so easy to become blind with God's future blessings. How many times have many given up before the dawning of a breakthrough. How many have thrown in the towel before they saw their miracle, before the dream came to pass?

I have a salt-water tank in my office. One of my fish, a clown trigger has gone blind. He can't see the food I feed him very well. I have been hand feeding him to assure that he gets enough to live. One day in his blindness, he bit my finger while I was attempting to feed him. It hurt to the point I commented; " I'm not feeding you anymore." ha ha

There are times that our test and struggles  can blind us, to the point that we question God's integrity. "Has the Lord failed me, has He forgotten me; Lord why has this taken place in my life?" If were not careful our anger can bite the hand that is feeding us.

Joseph could have easily turned angry on God. Job as well could have easily said; "God you have messed this one up real good." But notice that these continued in their faith and confidence in God. Job said; "Yet the Lord slay me I will still worship him."

God wants to grow each of us through our difficulties. There is something He wants to do in each of us. Joseph was being stretched as he was taken from a pit in his homeland down to Egypt in a foreign land. He could have gotten angry with God when he was falsely accused by a lying woman had him placed in prison. God was still molding and developing his character and his confidence in his God.

What would have happen to this man had he turned bitter at his brothers, a lying woman, two prisoners who forgot about him? Why didn't dad come looking for me? Why would God allow this nightmare in my life? Will things get any better? Will I ever come out of this vortex, this whirlwind, and this oxymoron in my life?

God says; Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. (Eccl 7:8)  Let me say to you "Pastor, you will come through your nightmare." The deacon, who might have said some ugly things about your future, doesn't have the final say over your life and ministry.

The message here is don't get mad or bite the Hand that is allowing your test, your food, your difficulties in life. Most of us can't handle all the stuff that comes our way, but by the grace of God.

A few years ago, I could have easily turned angry at my setbacks, but instead I chose to believe that all things work together for my good. Yes I'm a better and stronger man today because I refused to bite the Hand that was feeding me. Joseph said in the end to his brothers, " What you did, you meant if for evil, but God has meant it for good" When Job prayed for his friends, God gave him twice what he started with.

Don't be blinded with future blessing that is on the way. These two men passed the test, and refused to become blind and bitter to they're bright-blessed future.
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A Heart Turned Rock-Hard

Exodus 7:1-7
Sin will cause your heart to harden against God. Years ago James Dobson tells a story of a pilot that was having engine problems in flight. As the plane was going down, it later revealed what the pilot was saying before impact and destruction?

The black box played back the last words of the pilot. He was not praying or calling on the Lord for mercy, rather he was cursing and swearing hatred against God. Why? Because a sin sick rock hard heart knows nothing but stubbornness and rebellion.

Pharaoh was a king that allowed his heart to become hard against God. Moses came to him time and time and time again to release the children of Israel from captivity. Moses declared unless you release the people, judgment will fall against the gods of Egypt.

God is a God of mercy and compassion, but He's also a God that will bring justice and judgment. Pharaoh refused to allow the people to go until all ten judgments were released onto Egypt.

It's a dangerous thing to ignore the wooing of the Holy Spirit of God. He is a person that has come to convict men of their sin. Why would someone kill and take a life, why would someone steal from his or her  employer, why would someone lie and commit adultery? Why would someone rebel against their parents? It all goes back to hardening our hearts against God.

There are those today that have lived their lives in constant stubbornness. When you resist the God who loves you, you are following your sin sick flesh that will ultimately destroy your life in an eternal hell. It's the god of this world that hath blinded them that believe not.

Pharaoh was warned time and time again to submit to Jehovah God, but his stubbornness brought about more pain than he dreamed or bargained for.

I still remember when the Holy Spirit came and convicted me that I needed Jesus in my life. I was young with a tender heart. I invited him to come in and cleanse me and forgive me of all my sins. I hate to think what I would have missed had I rebelled against God and said "NO."

One day I walked in the hospital to visit an 82-year old dying man. I said to him, "your family has asked me to come and pray with you." He began to curse and swear, "I don't want to know your God, I don't believe in your God." God was offering one more opportunity, one more chance before it was to late. I don't know that the man ever called on God before his last breath. I left asking Lord why? I believe the man had allowed his heart to turn rock-hard.

Call on the Lord while your heart is tender towards Him. If you don't know him, don't reject his love, his mercy, and his plan for your life. Call on Him Now.

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Quit Squawking About The Waves

Luke 8:22  “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” 


Jesus told his disciples to get in the boat, "Were going to the other side of the lake." On the trip across the lake, Jesus decides to take a nap in the boat. As they're crossing the lake a huge storm comes down on the lake and the waves are breaking over into the boat. The disciples became so frightful and fearful they thought the boat was going to sink.

They wake Jesus up and he rebukes the wind and says to them in verse 39 "Be quiet, calm down." Luke 8: 25 He ask them in the storm, "Where is your faith?" The storm your in today is attempting to hinder you from going somewhere in God's plan and design. Many miss the real deal behind the wind and the waves in the storm. Jesus was on a mission to deliver a man that was bound by a devil in next verses.

There never has been anyone yet that God didn't love and couldn't deliver and couldn't get to. Hell was attempting to stop the Lord's mission in getting to the man that was bound by Satan. Do you have a son or a daughter bound by drugs, alcohol, porn, being stubborn in their sin and bondage?

Jesus knows how to get to your boy, your daughter, your dad, your mom, your family member. The storm that came on the lake was a resistance from hell to sink the mission from heaven. I have news for the devil and his attempt to stop God. It won't work. Tell hell, "Your mission to stop God and me won't work." Will see our miracle come to pass.

Get that in your spirit today. God's ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. Satan can scheme and plot and plan and work overtime to stop the Lords mission, but it won't work. Jesus spoke to the wind and the waves and there was a calm.

Jesus is greater than any devil out of hell to stop His will for your boy or daughter. Jesus calmed the storm, climbed out of the boat right on time, right on mission and delivered the man from the demons that had tormented his life.

All God is looking for are those who will get in the boat and trust His hand, His direction, His mandate, His mission, His words and His command to go to the other side.

In the name of the Lord, keep moving with His love and His plan, and for the sake of your coming miracle, quit squawking about the wind and the waves. Jesus never said on the mission some water wouldn't get in the boat. As long as He's on board, no devil will sink the mission that He has purposed and planned.

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